Salad du Jour: Cookbook du Jour, #3

By Hannah Lewis

First course and side dish salads. There are 20 delightful salad recipes in this book from classics like Salade Lyonnaise and Warm Goat Cheese and Pear Salad to different starters such as Hipster Cucumber Salad and Roasted Corn, Avocado, Bacon, Tomato Salad. Pick your salad du jour!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Hannah Lewis
• Release date: Mar 23, 2021
• ISBN: 9781393563570

Hannah Lewis

Hannah Lewis has been cooking and baking for over 40 years and wants to share her favorite recipes with you. She is a wife and mother living in California. When not cooking, you can find her reading a cozy mystery, watching a really bad but delightful B movie, or puttering around in the garden.

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Salad Tips

The recipes in this book are for first course salads or side salads. Doubling recipes, and in some cases adding a protein, will make them main entrees. A first course or side salad equals a large handful of lettuce.

Salad Assembly

● When the recipe calls for 4 cups of lettuce, it means loosely packed and rounded. You can eyeball this as well. A good handful per cup.

● Choose good quality ingredients. If you use bagged salad, pick through it to remove limp or wilted pieces.

● Wash all produce. Wash to remove dirt, critters (it happens), and pesticides. The best way to wash greens is to fill a large bowl with cold water. Add green and swish around, maybe soak them for a minute or two. Then lift out the greens. Rinse out the bowl, refill with cold water, and repeat the process with the greens. Repeat until no dirt is left in the bottom of the bowl.

● Dry thoroughly. The drier the greens, the crispier they will be